bodhimcbodeface

I love the term “loanwords” because it implies that you intend to give them back.

  bodhimcbodeface

*dumps a box full of words on French’s front porch* You never came back for your shit.

  cipheramnesia

Loanwords, loaned to the British Museum so

  nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix

Would everyone like to know the best thing??? There are two types of borrowed word - loan words and calques. Loan words are words taken directly from the language i.e. tattoo, sushi, guillotine. Calques are words literally translated from the language before being borrowed i.e. beer garden, scapegoat, killer whale (incorrectly calqued, the original actually means whale killer which is a whole other post).

Did anyone notice the fun thing?

Loan word is a calque (German lehnwort lit. Loan+word) and calque is a loan word (French calque - tracing or imitation). Have a good day!

  duckdotcom

slapping modeling clay around blindly without thought or purpose, i look down and find a perfectly sculpted replica of myself seated at a table with a lump of modeling clay before me, similarly shaped into a still smaller instance of the same scene. and i am afraid to look up

  cryptotheism

This happened to the sumerian gods.

  zegalba

Magdalena Jetelova: The Domestication of a Pyramid (2014)

  frawgs

u don’t touch this bitch for one (1) day and the spiders start living lavish

  deadreckon-deactivated20230712

blood is basically the most normal thing for a sword to hunger for. if a sword gained sentience and started asking me for blood i'd be like yeah i thought you might say that

  eosofspades

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

  fairycosmos

sudden urge to burst into tears. im not a toddler i just agree with their beliefs

  raevenlywrites

• World is hard, scary, confusing
• Needs not being met
• Little to no control over my environment
• Overwhelmed and need some release
• Desperately want a nap

Yeah, that checks out

  tiktoksthataregood-ish

  0sbrain

SOUND ON. TRUST ME ON THIS ONE

  worldwithoutmiracles

  fluentisonus

genuinely inconsolable I can't have one of these pompeii bread plushies fr.

  raddarc

I am so proud to say that my college is so LGBT friendly, that in a survey Res Life put out they forgot to include straight people.

  queerautism

This is a fucking power move

  nonsequiturpizza

  tiktoks-for-tired-tots

  manypersons

  korrasera

In case anyone isn't aware, connections like that are literally called 'illegal' techniques in LEGO parlance.

Illegal building techniques are ones that aren't allowed in official LEGO sets, which always use building techniques designed for and intended by LEGO. The reason they're called illegal is because they stress the blocks in a way they weren't intended for, causing various kinds of material failure overtime.

As an example, the blocks in the example above slowly deform over time because, slowly warping until they don't connect very well to other blocks or each other.

  as-the-jay-flies